Evolution

He spoke with such passion that I did not know what to say after all that. There was a silence as he waited for me to absorb everything he said. He was smiling, Happy to reveal his truth at last. It was apparently ordained by God and Darwin.
I started to see how they changed their own story over time to maintain their superiority within it. To him it was a natural progression, but I saw their need to center themselves within the story of humanity. They believe that domination is the path to success and evolution.
There may be some truth to what he says, but it’s clouded in a delusional prominence of the rich as a separate species. He sees the whole of human progress as favoring his own narcissistic traits over the rest of humanity. He talks about the market as if it is responsible for everything humans have created since the dawn of civilization. It is such an oversimplification of human creativity, that I don’t know where to start deconstructing it.
The market does not create products, people do. The market only directs how, and what is created. For the most part, creative people are not motivated by money or self interest. There have been many social studies on this topic. For someone that reads a lot, I don’t know how he could pass up the research and studies of the last century. It is likely he ignores them as irrelevant, because they do not add to his idea of superiority and dominance as the driving force behind human achievements.
I do believe he is correct in that market driven societies breed narcissistic traits in humans. Narcissists want us to believe that self interest is inherent in all humans. Many studies show this is not the case. In fact, just a few humans, maybe ten percent of the population carry the genes for narcissistic personality disorder. A larger portion are enablers. Most people want to share and help each other. This is how humans evolved. Cooperation, not competition.
I wish I had more time to deconstruct and counter his arguments. I may write more later. Sometimes I have difficulty keeping quiet while I listen to him. He is wrong in so many ways. It scares me to think that people like him are managing society, and have any power at all. I know there’s nothing I could do to influence him. Even if I could, it would not change the path we’re on. I would have to change the minds of everyone here, and it’s clear to me that would never happen. They all reinforce each other’s beliefs, that they are the true masters of humanity.